Bug 168595 - No mouseover/hover effect in insert special character menu-button-dialog
Summary: No mouseover/hover effect in insert special character menu-button-dialog
Status: NEW
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
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Blocks: Special-Character
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Reported: 2025-09-28 22:30 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-09-29 08:10 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-28 22:30:28 UTC 
If I press the arrow part of the insert special character toolbar button, a mini-dialog expands. In this dialog, hovering the mouse over characters' 'boxes' does not higlight the boxes, nor does it change the name listed at the bottom of the dialog to that of the character one is hovering over.

Observed with:

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 432930279b5d2791efadf5d602fb426c59d10a48
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: qt5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 432930279b5d2791efadf5d602fb426c59d10a48
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US

but also with 24.8 Linux releases and GTK3, last year.
Comment 1 V Stuart Foote 2025-09-29 00:33:49 UTC 
On Windows builds for the Standard tb Special Character *split button* glyph rows, I receive tooltip pop-ups containing the Unicode Name for each set of glyphs - both Favorites and Recents.

Linux qt5 and gtk3 only? Maybe check gen.

=testing-=

Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 54047653041915e595ad4e45cccea684809c77b5
CPU threads: 28; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded

Version: 26.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 6f68c46d0aa5fe872de0dec8777d35ff91886043
CPU threads: 28; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2025-09-29 00:39:42 UTC 
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> On Windows builds for the Standard tb Special Character *split button* glyph
> rows, I receive tooltip pop-ups containing the Unicode Name for each set of
> glyphs - both Favorites and Recents.
> 

But can confirm that despite on-mouse-over tooltip, there is no *highlight* of the split button content with on-mouse-over. 

Highlight requires keyboard movement through the split-button items by <Tab> or <Shift><Tab>. But currently no Cursor (U,D,L,R) key movement (though I thought there had been at some point, maybe I'm misremembering).
Comment 3 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-09-29 07:50:39 UTC 
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #1)
> Linux qt5 and gtk3 only? Maybe check gen.

Rerpdouced with:

Version: 25.8.1.1 (X86_64)
Build ID: 54047653041915e595ad4e45cccea684809c77b5
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-IL (en_IL); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

with which I get tooltips, but no highlights nor label change. 

Actually, I think the tooltips are rather inappropriate, and instead, just the label with char name should change as one hovers over char boxes in the dialog.
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2025-09-29 08:10:27 UTC 
No question, the controls should give a feedback on mouse hover (additionally to the tooltip). It's typically a colored frame likewise the button "More Characters" but may be different depending on the OS/DE.